If they said that, they were wrong. Right now, due to tiebreakers, we are in the 12 seed.
Basically it breaks down like this:
1. Vandy (best record)
2. Arkansas (West leader)
3. Mississippi St
4. Georgia
5. Ole Miss
6. LSU
7. Texas A&M
8. Missouri
9. Auburn
10. Tennessee
11. Florida
12. Alabama
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13. South Carolina
14. Kentucky
Bama, SCar, UK both have identical 7-20 records, so it goes to the 3-team tiebreaker. They didn't all face each other (UA vs SCar, SCar vs UK, but not UA vs UK), so it goes to the 2.B tiebreaker scenario, using record versus seeds 1-14 using common opponents only. The only common opponents (currently) are Texas A&M and Florida (in that order because TAMU is the 7 seed, UF is the 11). Bama and SCar both went 1-2 against TAMU, while UK went 0-3, so that eliminates UK, bringing it down to a two-team tiebreaker with Bama and SCar. Since Bama took 2-3 from SCar, Bama wins the tiebreaker and gets the 12 seed.
After next weekend, the common opponents grows to include both UGA and Vandy, and since Vandy is the highest seed all teams will have faced, we need UK to get swept like we did, while taking one from UGA.
So basically, to get in we need any of the following to happen:
1. UK to get swept by Vandy. UA gets one against UGA and matches SCar in wins next weekend.
2. However many wins UK gets against Vandy, UA needs to win that plus one more against UGA, with SCar not sweeping Miss St.
I don't see us taking 2 from UGA, so it looks like we're all going to need to be Vandy fans next weekend.